The Web provides access to substantial amount of information. Metadata that means data about data enables the discovery of such information. When the metadata is effectively used, it increases the usefulness of the original data/resource and facilitates the resource discovery. Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a basis for handling these metadata and is a graph-based, self-describing data format that represents information about web-based resources. It is necessary to store the data persistently for many Semantic Web applications that were developed on RDF to perform effective queries. Because of the difficulty of storing and querying RDF data, several storage techniques have been proposed for these tasks. In this paper, we present the motivations for using the RDF data model. Several storage techniques are discussed along with the methods for optimizing the queries for RDF datasets. We present the differences between the Relational Database and the XML technology. Additionally, we specify some of the use cases for RDF. Our findings will shed light on the current achievements in RDF research by comparing the different methodologies for storage and optimization proposed so far, thus identifying further research areas.
Abstract:In last decade, expansion of mobile phones increased people's usage of these devices. In parallel with the increasing usage rate, the number of developed applications increased for mobile phones. Thanks to mobile phones, many different fields have been affected. However, the biggest contributions of mobile phones are orientation and location finder services. Although people spend major time of their life in indoor areas, usage of navigation systems must be outdoors since these systems get coordinate information from satellites. In indoor areas, walls, and any object in a building cause wrong results or block navigation systems. In this study, orientation and location finder services for indoor navigation will be done by using accelerometer, compass and camera that have been already included in the phones and augmented reality technology for iOS based mobile phones and locations will be provided thanks to beacon Bluetooth devices.
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